earlier this year I was given an 86 bayliner capri with an 86 force 125 on it, the motor was junk do to some idiot not putting oil in the gas. boat needs a new deck but thats no big deal since it was free to start with, while its apart I might need to do new stringers and transom but I will figure that out when I get there.
I found a chrysler 115 power head on CL for $250 that had been rebuilt (not sure on year going to look up the serial # this week, my guess would be early 80s) , put it on my force leg and it runs great on the muffs. I took the boat out to the lake today for a test run before I sink a bunch more money into it, the motor started right up great and was pumping water through my added tell tail like a champ so I took off from the landing and got about 200 yds and the motor bogged down and died on me. I hit the key and it fired right back up again and was idling as smooth as can be a few minutes later (under power) same thing happened again. did this a bunch of times and after some miner tinkering I decided I would need to get it back home and give it a good looking over.
I raised the motor up a bit so it was still getting water pumped through but the prop was out of the water and it seemed to rev up just fine (don't have a tach yet) once in the water fully it started acting up again. What should I check out? I plan to put in new plugs and wires for sure (it has a distributer type ignition not individual coils) I've also seen that this could be a timing issue maybe? timing needs to be checked in the water? would a barrel work or does it have to be in a lake? I'm guessing that since it runs great on land and lower rpms in the lake it should be a somewhat easy fix.
also once in the water and under power the boat turns very hard to the left but really easily to the right, I think I read somewhere that the exhaust snout can cause this if its not in the right position? I know I had it off to work on the impeller and thought I put it back on in the same position but maybe not, also nothing says it was in the right spot before I touched it. which way should I move it? or is it a trial and error type of thing? maybe something completely different? we did grease all the steering stuff up before heading out and it turns fine when not under power
I found a chrysler 115 power head on CL for $250 that had been rebuilt (not sure on year going to look up the serial # this week, my guess would be early 80s) , put it on my force leg and it runs great on the muffs. I took the boat out to the lake today for a test run before I sink a bunch more money into it, the motor started right up great and was pumping water through my added tell tail like a champ so I took off from the landing and got about 200 yds and the motor bogged down and died on me. I hit the key and it fired right back up again and was idling as smooth as can be a few minutes later (under power) same thing happened again. did this a bunch of times and after some miner tinkering I decided I would need to get it back home and give it a good looking over.
I raised the motor up a bit so it was still getting water pumped through but the prop was out of the water and it seemed to rev up just fine (don't have a tach yet) once in the water fully it started acting up again. What should I check out? I plan to put in new plugs and wires for sure (it has a distributer type ignition not individual coils) I've also seen that this could be a timing issue maybe? timing needs to be checked in the water? would a barrel work or does it have to be in a lake? I'm guessing that since it runs great on land and lower rpms in the lake it should be a somewhat easy fix.
also once in the water and under power the boat turns very hard to the left but really easily to the right, I think I read somewhere that the exhaust snout can cause this if its not in the right position? I know I had it off to work on the impeller and thought I put it back on in the same position but maybe not, also nothing says it was in the right spot before I touched it. which way should I move it? or is it a trial and error type of thing? maybe something completely different? we did grease all the steering stuff up before heading out and it turns fine when not under power